Naturalnews.com / By Amy Goodrich - 2015-04-12 13:24:35 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : (NaturalNews) Coffee, a sometimes controversial beverage which many of us start our day with, may not be as bad as some of us think.While it is true that too much of this warming pick-me-up drink can disrupt sleep, raise heart rate and blood pressure, and mess up digestion, drinking...

ScienceDaily - 2015-04-10 12:10:22 +0000 - Reading time 4 mins - Share : NASA plans to send advanced material into space on Monday, April 13. The Synthetic Muscle™ has been developed to adhere to metal, and could be used in robotics in deep space travel such as travel to Mars because of its radiation resistance, scientists say. "Based on the good results we had on p...
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Medical Xpress - 2015-04-08 13:58:09 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : The ceremonial opening kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Sao Paolo, Brazil, which was performed—with the help of a brain-controlled exo-skeleton—by a local teen who had been paralyzed from the waste down due to a spinal cord injury, was a seminal moment for the area of neuroscience that stri...
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Brainposts.blogspot.sg / Bill Yates, Brain Posts - 2015-04-08 12:06:06 +0000 - Reading time < 1 mins - Share : In my last post I reviewed a recent diffusion tensor imaging study of ADHD in children. This study found evidence for brain white matter deficits in several ciruitry regions including frontal, temporal and occipital areas.To follow up on this post, I want to highlight a recent study of DTI in adu...
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Futurity / Jade Boyd-Rice - 2015-04-07 15:25:04 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : “Suboptimal performance” doesn’t sound ideal, but new research suggests scientists who study metabolism and its role in evolution should look for signs of just that.
A study published this month in the journal BMC Systems Biology details a computational method called corsoFBA. FBA stands fo...
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Naturalnews.com / By Sandeep Godiyal - 2015-04-07 01:14:30 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : (NaturalNews) New research has shown a connection between breastfeeding and intelligence. Many mothers choose to breastfeed to bond with their baby, to provide optimum nutrition and for the convenience, but the lifetime effects go beyond this. Most people, researchers and doctors...

(e) Science News - 2015-03-27 13:59:07 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : Antibiotic consumption in livestock worldwide could rise by 67 percent between 2010 and 2030, and possibly endanger the effectiveness of antimicrobials in humans, according to researchers from Princeton University, the International Livestock Research Institute, the Université Libre de Bruxelles...
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Medical Xpress - 2015-03-27 10:10:49 +0000 - Reading time 1 mins - Share : (HealthDay)— People who have three or more alcoholic drinks per day could be raising their odds for liver cancer, according to a report from a panel of experts.Ads from Inoreader:Remove ads • Advertise with Inoreader

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-26 12:21:15 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : Most children with HIV who have low levels of a key immune cell eventually recover levels of this cell after they begin treatment.

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-25 16:41:41 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : Two of the most destructive termite species in the world are swarming together in South Florida. They might mate, forming a hybrid, and that worries the UF/IFAS scientists who found the superswarm.

NPR / Salmaan Keshavjee - 2015-03-22 07:47:10 +0000 - Reading time 5 mins - Share : That's what a patient in Russia said a few years ago. In fact, 1.5 million people do die of the airborne infection each year. Here's what the world needs to do to fight this generally curable scourge.

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-20 20:51:47 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : An antioxidant system that helps sustain the liver when other systems are missing or compromised has been discovered by scientists.
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The Atlantic / Adrienne LaFrance - 2015-03-20 12:41:52 +0000 - Reading time 5 mins - Share : Breastfed babies may grow up to have higher intelligence and make more money than their formula-fed peers. That was the conclusion of a new study out of Brazil, and published in The Lancet this week, which found positive associations between breastfeeding, higher IQ, longer schooling, and higher ...
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ScienceDaily - 2015-03-19 22:51:05 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : University of Illinois social work researcher is collaborating with Champaign-Urbana Public Health District to administer perinatal depression screenings to low-income women.

Futurity / Robert Perkins-USC - 2015-03-19 10:56:20 +0000 - Reading time 1 mins - Share : In 1996, a trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene–soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 joined carbon atoms that exhibit special physical properties.
Now, 20 years later, scientists have figured out how to turn them into buckybombs.
These nan...
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Naturalnews.com / By Michael Edwards - 2015-03-19 01:57:44 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : (NaturalNews) What if you could treat and prevent a wide range of illness just by drinking tea or by swallowing a few drops of a powerful herbal extract? It turns out that you can, and this natural medicine has been in use for centuries.Pau d'arco, a tropical tree, has been used...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-18 11:22:59 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : A new tuberculosis (TB) drug regimen designed to improve options for TB therapy eliminated more bacteria from sputum than standard therapy and did so at a faster rate, according to data from a phase 2b clinical trial. These results are published just as the global phase 3 clinical trial, designed...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-18 10:59:55 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : A new study has identified a rural community in Brazil that still follows the earlier sleep and wake times similar to pre-industrial times. The team of researchers studied the population of Baependi, a small rural town in south-eastern Brazil, whose sleep/wake cycle is much more aligned with that...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-17 12:00:34 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : A 17 million-year-old whale fossil provides the first exact date for East Africa's puzzling tectonic uplift, says paleontologists who rediscovered the fossil. The uplift and aridification associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa caused changes in vegetation and have been considered a ...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-13 11:13:18 +0000 - Reading time 1 mins - Share : A cross-sectional representative study aimed to assess the association between birth weight and severity of defects development of enamel (DDE) in the primary dentition. The sample was comprised 1,309 children five years of age, enrolled in kindergarten in the city of Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. ...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-13 11:13:18 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : Treating respiratory disease is often difficult because drugs have to cross biological barriers such as respiratory tissue and mucosa, and must therefore be given in large quantities in order for an effective amount to reach the target. Now researchers have shown that the use of nanoparticles to ...

The Guardian / Eleanor Tucker - 2015-03-12 06:56:13 +0000 - Reading time 4 mins - Share : Children and adults living with this rare and debilitating disease are facing an uncertain future, as a life-changing drug has been denied NHS fundingOne child in 25 in the UK is born with a genetic disorder, many of them extremely rare. Here, families share their stories about living with unusua...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-11 10:58:07 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : A major challenge facing the world's health care systems is paying for a new breed of expensive breakthrough drugs. One way to address the issue is to approach it the same way as other industries where suppliers encourage investment through approaches such as equipment leases or supplier-financed...

Naturalnews.com / By Dr. David Jockers - 2015-03-08 01:26:51 +0000 - Reading time 4 mins - Share : (NaturalNews) The native Indian tribe in Paraguay calls stevia "Kaa he-he" which means "sweet herb". The This local herb is believed to have been used for centuries by locals as a sweetener and for medicinal treatments. Stevia has been shown to not only contain a great flavor but...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-04 15:09:50 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : Direct evidence of the rate at which individual trees in the Amazonian basin 'inhale' carbon from the atmosphere during severe drought has been provided by an international research team. Researchers found that while the rate of photosynthesis was constant among trees on plots unaffected by droug...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-04 11:26:23 +0000 - Reading time 3 mins - Share : One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear ‘threshold’ for forest cover below which species loss becomes more rapid and widespread. By measuring the loss of a core tranche of dominant species of large and ...

PLOS Blogs / Peter Hotez - 2015-03-03 14:49:36 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : Peter Hotez (@PeterHotez), Co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on new WHO estimates of the burden of Chagas disease in Latin America. The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released new estimates on the number of people living with … Continue reading »The post Chagas Disease: The N...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-02 15:44:53 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : Two of the fastest-growing plastic surgery procedures are gluteoplasty or "butt augmentation," to improve the appearance of the buttocks; and labiaplasty to address cosmetic and functional concerns with the vagina. New insights into the use and outcomes of these procedures are presented in a new ...

ScienceDaily - 2015-03-02 11:02:49 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming at the very edge of our Milky Way galaxy. This is the first time astronomers have found stars being born in such a remote location. Clouds of star-forming material at very high l...

Telegraph / Agency - 2015-02-25 14:28:13 +0000 - Reading time 1 mins - Share : Youngsters up to 10 who spend more than two hours a day in front of TV are 30pc more likely to have high blood pressure than those who do not, scientists discover
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Futurity / Ziba Kashef-Yale - 2015-02-23 12:42:04 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : Melanin is known to protect the skin by blocking harmful ultraviolet radiation (UV) light. Now, a new study shows it may have carcinogenic effects as well.
Exposure to UV light from the sun or from tanning beds can damage the DNA in melanocytes, the cells that make the melanin that gives skin its...
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Medical Xpress - 2015-02-23 07:06:04 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : It is synonymous with an Aussie summer but the humble backyard hose could be a bacterial breeding ground, providing the ideal conditions for the organisms that cause Legionnaires' disease to flourish, UNSW research has revealed.

Medical Xpress - 2015-02-18 12:40:45 +0000 - Reading time 2 mins - Share : (Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working at the Catholic University of Korea has found that a protein found naturally in spider venom that can be created in the lab and tested on rats, can be effective in treating erectile dysfunction. In their paper published in the journal Urology, the ...